Fashioning a ballet out of The Tempest is no small endeavor. How does one distill Shakespeare’s rather complex play into forty-six wordless minutes....
Tag - Souvenir de Florence
The mixed bill proved once again that San Francisco Ballet is a dedicated promoter of new work...
San Francisco’s second programme was better balanced than the first, with contrasting works created for the company within the past two years.
Boris Eifman is described in his company’s programme notes as a ‘choreographer-philosopher’ who wants to ‘draw spectators into the inexhaustible world of human passions’. His aim is to reinterpet the work of past geniuses to bring out their relevance to us today. ...Eifman is the Ken Russell of St Petersburg.